Our Own Personal Cookie Rally

Our Service Unit pushed our cookie season out a month this year. We had such nasty booth weather the last 2 years, I guess someone complained. Although, I didn't complain, I am grateful that they moved it out because now we wont have so much competition with the closest Service Unit selling at the same time. 

We had our own personal cookie rally this week. You may remember from my last cookie rally post that we were late enough to miss the cookie tasting. Last year I bought one of each kind of cookie for this very thing and fortunately they are selling all the same kinds this year.

 

So, here we are. All set up - so pretty... Don't focus on the messed up curtain on the left. The lineup includes Samoas, Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs, Trefoils, Rah-Rah Raisin, Toffee-tastic, and Savannah smiles.


You may have noticed that there are no Thin Mints on the napkin. They mysteriously disappeared before the picture could be taken. Weird, huh? Although she is smiling in the picture, she has no knowledge of who may have taken them. So we can considered those sampled. Let's move on, folks.

 I created a voting card for us to fill out, and I got her to try the "yucky-looking" Savannah Smiles. Turns out they were pretty good - so she ate two. And I have a little advice. They tell you when you buy three cases of your favorite that Girl Scout cookies freeze well - and I agree. Tagalongs, however, do not thaw well. Because the temperature in my house was 72 degrees, when I opened them, they were melty and a little hard to separate.

She is pointing to her two favorites. She liked the invisible Thin Mints and Toffeetastic, but she ran off with what was left of the Trefoils...

I tried to get her to number them on the sheet from favorite to least favorite, but that would have been too much like school work, so she just marked her two favorites. I like all of them and refuse to choose a favorite. I've never been crazy about the Thin Mints, but I really like them in brownies. (Just crush up about 1/2 a sleeve and toss them into your next batch of brownies, and you'll see what I mean.)

Here are the cookie vote sheets in Microsoft Word (if you need to edit it), and PDF versions.

Cookie Vote Doc

Cookie Vote PDF

Since we had props set up, we practiced talking to customers with a little role-play. We've been practicing money the past few weeks because she started studying it in school. She seems to be struggling with it, so I also downloaded a free money board game from Educents. She's been approaching people to initiate cookie sales this year, which I am so glad, and she has been so polite! I'm pretty impressed with her. I still can't believe how fast she's growing up!

So, now she's done all the steps to earn her Meet My Customers Badge!  She's been thanking her customers, but we like to also dress up a bag and make a cute tag for delivery, which I think really makes a nice impression on people.


And here is the card that I use to keep up with the requirements.

If you want, you can print these any size you like, but we like to keep them in baseball card slots in our binder and move them into our project life scrapbook album as we complete them. It's handy for journaling with our pictures.

Wishing you all a great cookie season!

Pics from Cookie Rally 2016

We are fortunate that even though my daughter is an Individually Registered Girl (Juliette), our Service Unit has events every month. She gets to network and stay in the loop. Most of the time at least one or two of the girls from her old troop are in attendance, so she has someone to pair up with for games. 

This year our Service Unit did a spa theme and sleepover party. The girls got to have a toilet paper fashion show. It was hysterical. Some of them could barely walk because their fancy toilet paper skirts were too tight around their legs!

Toilet paper fashion show

                                                        

The older girls came up with a relay race where three teams raced to fill cups with cotton balls. They had to carry the cotton balls plastic spoons they held in their mouths. They weren't supposed to touch the spoon. 

Cotton Ball Relay

They had a dance off to Let's Dance YouTube videos that one of the leaders played on a screen on the wall. Then the girls kept us up until almost midnight giggling.

Caught...

Each girl got a goodie bag with assorted make-up donated by Maybeline.

We were almost 20 minutes late because I had to stop and buy a new air mattress at the last minute. I got my payback when it was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever lain on. We missed the cookie tasting (they only let the girls try a broken piece of one kind of cookie, so it was more like a snack), but we decided that we will do that at home for our badge work in the next couple of weeks. I bought a box of each kind of cookie last year because I looked ahead and saw that one of the activities for their cookie business badge was to taste all the cookies and vote on your favorite.

I know this post is pretty short, but I promise as cookie season draws closer, the posts will probably get longer.

Until next time, my busy Juliette friends

Postcard Exchange Rant...

This exchange is no longer available.

Recently I accepted a request to help a troop in Virginia exchange postcards with a troop from every state. I spent over a week looking for postcards from Arkansas because apparently people don't send postcards anymore. I finally found some in an obscure truckstop 30 miles away and bought every one they had for future exchanges. Then I sent it and never heard anything... and never heard anything... Did they get it? Where is ours? Hmmm.

The post had disappeared from the Facebook group I first responded to. Good thing I took a screenshot so I wouldn't lose the address. So I typed in the lady's name and messaged her. Yeah, she got it, thanks. The girls are so excited, great. Here's a picture of them checking the mailbox, bye.

So, where is OUR postcard? Newsflash, ladies. You can't wear the patch for the postcard exchange! I won't let you! You didn't exchange postcards - you used me and now you owe me a buck for the postcard plus postage because you didn't reciprocate. Thanks alot.

So word to the wise, spell out the terms clearly when you negotiate these "trades". I'm actually not messed up over the money, but I do feel disappointed. I have tried 2 years in a row to sign up for the Postcard Exchange and they no longer do it. They haven't even updated their website in forever.

Rant over.

We are actually open to postcard exchanges if anyone is interested, but it must be a trade. I mean, I have like 10 postcards just waiting to be sent to some deserving troop or individual girl that wants to make new friends.

Until next time...